Tom Cavanaugh never quarreled about the means involved, just so long as the end was worth grabbing for. He was about to get fired when he blackmailed his boss into making him district sales manager.<P> Helen Mathews was no lily-white, either. She was rich, beautiful, and as coldly calculating and cruel as a jungle animal. When she learned her husband might kill her for her money, she wasn't frightened. All she wanted was revenge.< ...
Paris-based private investigator Pete Sawyer is hired to find out what happened to a girl who was kidnapped ten years before. When Pete starts digging, he finds more than expected – including a Neo Nazi movement! ...
In the February 24, 1982 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the editor offered the following challenge to the Author: «A plot idea for the next Photographer story: when Manuel looks at the name and address on the slip of paper handed to him by Rodolfo, he reads his own name and address. He has been given the assignment to nullify himself! How does the Photographer give positive proof to the Big Ones (no trick photo) of his own death, ...
Tomorrow Parke Gardner will be wed – if he can survive a night of knockout drops, bullets, and booby traps! A classic mystery tale ripped from the pages of Thrilling Mystery Novel Magazine, Spring 1945. ...
The very first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel finds the debonaire sleuth investigating the strange case of the corpse in the bathtub…who may not be who he seems! ...
It was a tough case – the murder of Big Jim Shannon, political boss, a man with a thousand enemies. And not a single clue that could be called evidence… Third in the Lt. Joseph Marcus series! ...
Originally pubished August 8, 1914, here is issue #100 of the famous Nickel Weekly, Nick Carter Stories. This ebook contains the complete contents of the Nickel Weekly, including the Nick Carter novel THE CRYSTAL MAZE, plus parts of 2 serialized novels (THE PERFUME OF MADNESS and THE SYNDICATE OF CRIME) as well as numerous short features. ...
Published between 1910 and 1913, the Aeroplane Boys series consisted of 8 books aimed at boys fascinated by the new technology of flight. It was written by H.L. Sayler under the pseudonym “Ashton Lamar” and focused on the adventures of a group of amateur flyers. <P>IN THE CLOUDS FOR UNCLE SAM<BR>THE STOLEN AEROPLANE<BR>THE AEROPLANE EXPRESS<BR>THE BOY AERONAUTS’ CLUB<BR>A CRUISE IN THE SKY<BR>BATTLING THE BIG ...